NETHERLANDS 1872-1897

Nederland - Pays-Bas - Niederlande

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Currency: 100 Cent = 1 Gulden

1872 King William III, smaller head, inscription "NEDERLAND" curved at the top, perforated

  5 c blue
  7 1/2 c brown (1888)
  10 c red
  12 1/2 c grey (1875)
  15 c brown
  20 c green
  22 1/2 c green (1888)
  25 c lilac
  50 c brown
  1 G violet (1888)

Larger size

  2 G 50 c red and blue

These stamps exist with many different perforations. The first stamps appeared on 1 July 1872.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
5 c	c	vc
7 1/2 c	*	*
10 c	*	c
12 1/2 c	**	c
15 c	***	c
20 c	***	c
22 1/2 c	***	***
25 c	***	c
50 c	***	*
1 G	***	**
2 G 50 c	R	***

Postal stationary in the 5 c blue design.

Besides numeral cancels, double ring cancels with a cityname also exist, here a railway cancel 'AMSTERD. ANTW. IX' from 1890. Besides it a much rarer linear townname cancel, here 'BEEKBERGEN'.

Typical letter from Zwolle to Liederholthuis.

Forgery (more a dealer label probably) with cancel "UNIV.. W. WAGENSTRAAT 75 ROTTERDAM"

1876 Value in a circle, "NEDERLAND" straight on top

  1/2 c red
  1 c green
  2 c yellow
  2 1/2 c lilac

These stamps exist with many perforations and were issued in January 1876.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
1/2 c	c	vc
1 c	c	vc
2 c	c	c
2 1/2 c	c	vc

Postal stationary exist of the 2 1/2 c lilac value.

1891 Queen Wilhelmina facing the right

  3 c orange
  5 c blue
  7 1/2 c brown
  10 c red
  12 1/2 c grey
  15 c brown
  20 c green
  22 1/2 c green
  25 c lilac
  50 c brown
  1 G violet

Larger size and two colors

  50 c green and brown
  1 G brown and green
  2 G 50 c red and blue
  5 G green and brown

A very rare misprint 5 c orange (instead of blue) exist.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
3 c	c	c
5 c	c	vc
7 1/2 c	*	c
10 c	*	vc
12 1/2 c	*	c
15 c	**	*
20 c	**	c
22 1/2 c	**	**
25 c	**	c
50 c brown	***	*
50 c green and brown	***	*	larger size
1 G violet	***	***
1 G brown and green	***	***	larger size
2 G 50 c	R	***
5 G	RR	RR

5 c blue postal stationary in the same design.

A bisected stamp cancelled in "BATHMEN" to "COLMSCHATE".

Railway cancel 'UTRECHT-BOKSTEL'

Towncancel "RAALTE" and "FREDERIKSOORD"

A forgery of the 2G50c stamp exists and usually has the cancel "'T LOO":

'T LOO forgeries of the 2.50 G value

The same forgery with a "TIEL" cancel.

Forgery (actually a dealer advertisement) of the 50 c value with cancel 'P.BLAD UTRECHT 1887 1912' to commemorate the 25 year existence of the P.Blad company.

A forgery of the 5 G value was made by the forger Lucien Smeets (from Brussels, Belgium). Smeets used the double circle cancel "SITTARD 24 MEI 07 1-2 N". See also www.bondskeuringsdienst.nl/hh48.pdf.
Other forgeries listed in the book by P.v.d. Loo on forgeries are:
A 5 G forgery with cancel "Scheveningen Kurhaus 5 Juli 1920"
A 5 c blue (imperforate) with cancel "Amsterdam 31 AUG 1893"
A 5 c orange with "Rootlieb & Co Rokin 4 Amsterdam Postzegel handel in en verkoop" (advertisement label).

Sold as a genuine stamps for 117 Euros, but it looks like a photographic forgery to me.

A Zechmeyer forgery of the 5 c value in mirror image.

For stamps issued from 1898 to 1920 click here.

Dutch dictionary

gestempeld = cancelled
getand = perforated
herdruk = reprint
kopdruk = inverted print
nadruk = reprint
Nederland = The Netherlands
ongetand = imperforate
plakker = hinge
postfris = unused with no hinge
postzegel = stamp
samenhangend = se-tenant
stempel = cancel
tanding = perforation
te betalen port = to be paid (text on postage due stamps)
vals = forged
vervalsing = forgery
verzamelen = to collect
verzameling = collection
voor het kind = child welfare stamps ('for the child')

Forgeries

Recently (2005), a lot of so-called 'facsimiles' are offered on Internet auctions of many stamps of the Netherlands and Netherlands Indies, examples of such 'fac similes':

Even facsimiles of proofs are offered, reduced sizes